{"id":699,"date":"2007-01-06T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2007\/01\/poetry-for-the-galactic-center.html"},"modified":"2007-01-06T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T18:47:00","slug":"poetry-for-the-galactic-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2007\/01\/poetry-for-the-galactic-center.html","title":{"rendered":"Poetry for the Galactic Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

I doubt that Rilke had the Galactic Center in mind when he wrote this poem, but it certainly seems a vivid description of what we know of the G.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet–
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.<\/p>\n

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,<\/p>\n

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.<\/p>\n

Buddha in Glory
–Rainer Maria Rilke
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